Daily Search Forum Recap: February 12, 2019

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google: Do Not Flip Between Index & Noindex on URLs Too Frequently
This is probably common sense to all the readers here, but you should likely not add a noindex and remove the noindex on specific URLs often or heck, even infrequently. It will confuse Google, slow Google down in terms of seeing if that page should be indexed again in the future and will result in that page not always doing well in search.

Will Google's Indexing API To Allow All Content Types?
As you know, the Google Indexing API only is reserved for job posting URLs and live stream events. But that might change as we have been speculating for a while. Gary Illyes from Google in his Reddit AMA also mentioned that Google is testing this as well.

Google: Media Search Overlooked By Publishers
This is the second time a Googler said that SEOs, webmasters, publishers should be paying more attention to image search and video search. John Mueller said it a couple weeks ago and now Gary Illyes said it last Friday.

Google Again: Sharing IP Addresses For Multiple Sites Is Okay
This topic goes back ages, but for some reason John Mueller from Google said again in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it is perfectly fine and doesn't hurt you in Google search to share an IP address on the same server with other web sites.

Google Trending Icon On People Carousel
A year ago Google began showing what people are trending in Google search. I am not sure if this next one is new, but Grant Oster shared a screen shot of Google showing a trending icon on the "more people" carousel. See the blue trending icon at the top left of Andre Iguodala?

US Army Posting The Colors At Google
Google invited some US Army soldiers to do a Posting of Colors at the main Google offices at an event the other day. Here is a photo of two of them posing with their rifles and in their uniforms.